[Mesorah] S. Baer on Shelo Assani Nochri

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R. Rich Wolpoe quoted R Seligmann Baer's entry re: Shelo Assani Nochri, from Seder Avodas Yisroel pp. 40-41 --

> However the author of Vayetar Yitzchok distanced [rejected] the
> word "Goy" and replaced it with "Nochri" - and he fixed well!
> Because Hazal regularly called a Gentile "Goy" as Radak wrote in
> Sh'roshim "Goy", nevertheless throughout scripture the word "Goy"
> denotes Nation and [thus] is not fit to use this in speaking of
> an individual as Ibn Ezra testifies in his commentary to Sh'mos
> 21:8

>From what I can see, that Ibn Ezra compares the words Nochri, Zar, and Ivri, and never even mentions the word "Goy", and he never mentions the siddur or the bracha either. The most one can say is that Ibn Ezra would have found Nochri to be appropriate, but not that he would have found Goy to be inappropriate.

If so, then it seems to me that this author took the Ibn Ezra out of context, making it sound like Ibn Ezra would support using the word Nochri in the bracha, when he actually said no such thing, at least not in my edition of his perush on Shmos 21:8.

Akiva Miller


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